Impact Assessment of Speed Calming Measures on Road Safety

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• 作者：Laura Jateikienė ; ^{laura.jateikiene@vgtu.lt" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Tadas Andriejauskas ; Ineta Lingytė ; Vilma Jasiūnienė
• 关键词：road safety ; vertical traffic calming measures ; speed cameras
• 刊名：Transportation Research Procedia
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：14
• 期：Complete
• 页码：4228-4236
• 全文大小：305 K

文摘

Traffic calming and speed reduction are one of the core factors that influences traffic accident rate and severity. In the last decades a lot of speed calming measures were implemented in the Lithuanian roads of national significance and city streets. As it was foreseen the result was very effective. The paper presents research methodology and analysis of results of vertical traffic calming measures (speed bumps, speed humps, raised crosswalks), safety islands and speed cameras influence to the road safety on Lithuanian roads.